She also works on large-scale community revitalization programs. Elving and three colleagues formed VIVA Consulting LLC in 2002 to provide housing, development and management solutions to public agencies, private businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Previously, for 21 years, Elving was vice president for housing development at The Community Builders, Inc., a $35 million nonprofit firm that offers a full range of professional real estate services in property development and management, planning, human services and law. She supervised 40 real estate projects creating new homes for 3,700 households serving families with children, the elderly, people with special needs, and homeless individuals. She also managed comprehensive community rebuilding programs that leveraged large-scale residential redevelopment to improve social services, schools, recreation and public facilities. She also provided real estate development advice to public agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Elving also designed and implemented financing programs linking public and private investors in community redevelopment programs. She has consulted internationally on the design and implementation of the US/China Housing Demonstration Programs in Shanghai and Beijing and on mixed-income housing programs in Botswana, Africa. She lectures regularly on real estate development and affordable housing at universities and professional institutes. She serves on the Board of Directors of Citizens Housing and Planning Association in Boston and Homeowners Rehab, Inc. in Cambridge, MA. She has an MCP from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA from University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.